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High Performance Cluster 1 Installed as of January 2011 Using Amazon cloud sources The infrastructure can be turned on when needed Nodes can be optimized depending on needs Can be accessed from many different locations (CGIAR CRP-GRiSP) for software installation The speed is much faster than a connection to a system within the IRRI infrastructure Not intended to run graphics-intensive (e.g. GIS) operations but unattended heavy processing

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High Performance Cluster 2 Issues: – Installation of the regional to global scale crop prediction IFPRI routine – Activate computational resources – Real computer to keep the GIS portion of the exercise – This process may be complemented by the routine already developed at IRRI in the GIS group Question: – Can we use the regional to global scale crop prediction IRRI routine?

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IFPRI CC Monograph Comments 3 Factual assessment on baseline. Issues: – The international price development for rice seems too conservative – Area appears to decline too fast in several countries (India, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Korea) – Yield grows too fast for China, Japan and extremely fast for Kenya and Mozambique – The net trade positions of Bangladesh, China and India are unrealistic – Expected new Baseline for comments on May 15

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IFPRI CC Monograph Comments 4 Questions: – Was this information useful? – How could we merge and make available the baseline validation information from the different CGIARs? – Will the next baseline be available by May 15, 2011?

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Report on Rice Productivity Potential The report was submitted on 16/03/2011 Issues: – Helpful in starting the interaction process with breeders – Difficult to obtain and compile information from the breeders Question – What will be the dissemination format of these technical reports? IFPRI monograph on productivity potentials?

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Crop Spatial Data 1 Data on rice production, area and yields were submitted for most Asian countries The process is ongoing and needs to be improved Comments were received for India and Myanmar Issues: – very intensive, – administrative units may change over time

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Crop Spatial Data 2 Data on rice production, area and yields were submitted for most Asian countries The process is ongoing and needs to be improved Comments were received for India and Myanmar Issues: – very intensive, – administrative units may change over time

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IMPACT Enhancement 1 Tasks: – Provide feedback on baseline projections for rice – Contribute to the modeling improvement of the effect of border measures and domestic measures of support A concept note was provided during the latest meeting in Washington DCA concept note was provided during the latest meeting in Washington DC A report on the latest Washington DC meeting is availableA report on the latest Washington DC meeting is available

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General Questions Template/Content/Structure for the Report to be handed in by June 15 Need to establish a vertical and horizontal coordination for the IMPACT enhancement – Vertical: indentify a key reference person at IFPRI for the different methodological developments – Horizontal: establish some rule of conduct for GAMS code modifications and define how the different improvements will be incorporated

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General Questions Technical questions on IMPACT: – How the yield growth rates have been generated for IMPACT? How expert information enters in this process? – How the PSE/CSE indicators for non-OECD countries have been constructed? – …